If any of you would like a reprint of the paper mentioned below, please
send me an e-mail request. Regards, Damhnait McHugh dmchugh at oeb.harvard.edu
>Hello folks,
>>Damhnait McHugh's <dmchugh at oeb.harvard.edu> interesting paper on the above
>subject is readable online at:
>>http://www.pnas.org/all.shtml (Do a search on vol 94 and p8006)
>>Or a version for printing at:
>>http://www.pnas.org/cgi/reprint/94/15/8006>>This link is to a page offering the link to DOWNLOAD the Reprint (PDF)
>version of: PNAS McHugh 22 July 1997; 94 (15):8006-8009. (191K). And
>there is some info about printing PDF files. You need Adobe Acrobat reader
>(free from Adobe) to read & print this format, but it gives a very nice
>copy for filing.
>>McHugh, D. 1997. Molecular evidence that echiurans and pogonophorans are
>derived annelids. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 94:
>8006-8009
>>ABSTRACT "The Annelida, which includes the polychaetes and the
>clitellates, has long held the taxonomic rank of phylum. The unsegmented,
>mud-dwelling echiuran spoon worms and the gutless, deep-sea pogonophoran
>tube worms (including vestimentiferans) share several embryological and
>morphological features with annelids, but each group has also been
>considered as a separate metazoan phylum based on the unique characters
>they display. Phylogenetic analyses of DNA sequences from the nuclear gene
>elongation factor-1a place echiurans and pogonophorans within the Annelida.
>This result, indicating the derived loss of segmentation in echiurans, has
>profound implications for our understanding of the evolution of metazoan
>body plans, and challenges the traditional view of the phylum-level
>diversity and evolutionary relationships of protostome worms."
>>List members may find the 2nd to last paragraph of the paper particularly
>challenging.
>>:-)
>>--
> Geoff Read <g.read at niwa.cri.nz>
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